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Plus, guys like Houck and Whitlock will likely be on a 120-140 innings limit plan. Why use them all up before September and maybe even October, God willing?

Major League Baseball is so messed up.

I guess I shouldn't be so surprised some people are overly affected by short sample sizes, but for some reason I do.

We didn't sign Cordero. I'll never understand how anyone can be labelled a disaster after so few PAs. Renfroe is one of the leagues best hitters vs LHPs, but based on 3+ weeks of play- scrap him. Dalbec is at .828 since his call-up. Demote him. Franchy barely has 50 PAs. Send him to the Penn League. Can you just look around MLB? Players of all skill levels go through hard times. You'd think you'd have noticed that by now. Knee-jerk reactions is not a winning management style in this game.

I guess when all of MLB is hitting .233, it's not all that astounding.

Bloom is just what this team needed. Have you forgotten he had about 10 slots to fill on the 26 plus 10 more on the bottom end of the 40- all with a very limited budget? Plawecki has a .768 OPS with the Sox. Dalbec is at .828 since his call up- amazing for someone's first 150 PAs in MLB. Kike is hitting his career OPS. You should look beyond a 4 less than week sample size.

.727 Hernandez 95 PAs 1.199 JD 92 .907 Devers 90 .976 Bogey 90 .908 Verdugo 89 .692 Vaz 75 .677 Marwin 75 .646 Dalbec 63 .771 Arroyo 58 .496 Renfroe 57 .510 Cordero 49 .471 Plawecki 27 What's interesting, to me, is that despite our "hot start," we have 7 of our top 12 hitters at .727 or lower. 6 of our top 12 are at .692 or lower. 4 are below .647. 3 under .510. Maybe expect Arroyo and Marwin to move up on the PA chart, and Cordero & Renfroe to remain near the bottom.

No BBs, either. Was their a HBP or something that caused this not to be a perfect game?

He's the July trade piece.

He wasn't known for his D, but that play he made at SS was as good as any Bogey has made in his career.

Makes sense, and in about a week, we'll know a little more, too. I wish AAA had started already, so players like Santana, Duran, Munoz, Puello, Bazardo, Houck, Seabold and others would be seeing live action.

The Yanks lost, today and have lost 7 of the last 11. (Yes, they won 4 in a row before today, but still.)

I totally agree, but if Cordero goes on just an .800 stretch for 150 PAs, the demotion talk will cease. The guy has hit well, in the past, for longer stretches than 46 PAs. He just might be able to do it again.

YES! .553 after those 3 PAs.

Batting Odor 4th tells a big story.

Lately, yes, despite his one BB, today.

Yanks lose. TBR and TOR hanging around .500.

Nice game: 5 runs on 5 hits- kinda feel like that loss we had where we let up 7 runs on 3 hits. Good to see us walking more (7 BBs, today). ERod is back. Barnes is Buttah! 5 RBIs- one from each batter slotted 4-8.

The Jackie Bradley Jr. story may be an extreme example of how sticking with a struggling player can work out for the best, and his elite defense made the slumps more palatable, but check out some of his long stretches of futility followed by enormous successful stretches: He came up to MLB with much more hype than Duran has, now. He hit .548 (OPS) in his first two seasons (530 PAs- not 55!). There were many fans screaming for his benching, demotion or worse. Then, on topmof all that, he started the 2015 season hitting .426 through his first 71 PAs (not 55!). He finished the 2015 season hitting .980 over his last 184 PAs bringing his season OPS to .832. What an example of a manager sticking with a struggling player. It wasn't over for JBJ: more tests were to come, and maybe that first example led to a longer leash for JBJ than normally afforded to anyone, but again, his great defense helped enormously. He started the next season off hitting .586 over his first 59 PAs- about the same as Cordero & Renfroe, this year. He then hit 1.191 over his next 144 PAs. The 2016 season did not start off as badly. (.610 after 65 PAs, but still pretty bad.) Later, he had one of the most memorable hot streaks in Sox history. 1.368 in 95 PAs. He had a .976 OPS on June 25th but had a .720 finish to the season (349 PAs). Again, in 2017, he started out slowly- hitting .537 in his first 84 PAs. He followed that up with a 1.026 stretch over his next 171 PAs but ended the season at .726 due to a long .596 stretch over his last 210 PAs. 2018 saw Jackie at .502 as late as May 19th! (142 PAs). He finished the season hitting a very respectable .793 over his final 393 PAs. In 2019, he was still below .400 on April 27th (88 PAs) He was at .553 on May 28th. He then hit 1.060 over his next 118 PAs and finished the season at .738. He was at .520 in 2020 after 62 PAs, but followed that with a .937 stretch over his last 155 PAs, and signed a big contract to boot.

How long to stick with a struggling player is one of the hardest choices a manager has to make. Sticking with players through long slumps does work out many times, and it does build strong relationships between players and their managers, when the manager "never lost faith." When is enough, enough? I'd say the leash is getting shorter and shorter on Cordero and Renfroe. I do think limiting their ABs vs off-handed pitchers would help put them in positions to succeed more often, build their confidence and maybe even get them to a point where you can leave them in games after an off-handed RP'er is brought in. With a limited bench, due to the 14 pitcher choice, it's harder to PH often.

More evidence on why I'm not a GM. I ranted and raved about Taillon and thought the Yanks got a steal on that trade. (Jury still out,but...)

We can't let this one get away. To have any chance, this year, we have to win a bunch of games like this one.

There is some truth to this, but in some ways, he reminds me of the good parts of Manny's mental make-up: the total inability to let any failure, even very embarrassing ones, affect your next AB.

The Devers part makes one wonder...

Amazing!